Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:48:04 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RECOVERY Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009210847230.18216-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009210843260.18141-100000@mail.telestream.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
OOoopps messed that up. should be. LS=`ls /home` ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > Something like this would work. > > #!/bin/sh > LS="/home" #or what ever the path is. > > for name in $LS > do > chown -R $name.$name /home/$name > done > > > > ================================= > Keith W. > At the helm <for better or worse> > > My non work related site > www.cydonia.net > ================================= > > > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I was working with a trainee under me (he's learning abit of UNIX from a > > novice who is me ;-)). This is on a TESTING BOX so this guy logs in as > > root, cd /usr/home where we have about 80 directories with various > > owners!! > > Then what does he do? he did chwon -R * some_user > > Now I need to rename the folders to the rightful owners. > > I sound quite comfortable about this but I DO NOT know how I can do it. > > Someone MUST be knowing how some script can help me do that, especially > > because the users have uniq uids in the /etc/passwd..somehow?????? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Wash > > > > -- > > Odhiambo Washington > > Systems Administrator > > Inter-Connect Ltd. > > 3rd Flr The Chancery > > Valley Rd > > PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA > > Tel: 254 2 711140 > > Fax: 254 2 718418 > > > > If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -Tom Robbins > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.10.10009210847230.18216-100000>